Who We Are

The Team

Robert L. Benson, ChairmanBob has over 25 years of domestic and international leadership experience in the executive search industry. He is the Chairman of RLBenson & Associates and Founder of Canaan Ridge, a firm offering the first professional development model of its kind tailored specifically to the executive search industry. During his nearly 20-year tenure at Spencer Stuart, Bob progressed through a series of increasingly responsible management roles…Read More

Reinhard J. HagerReinhard is the Founder and Managing Partner of Unternehmensberatung Sievering GmbH, a consulting company formed in 2002 to focus on organizational development, management strategy, management assessment and human resource services. His company serves major international clients with subsidiaries in the Eastern European countries and international executive search firms… Read More

H. James KrauserJim began his executive search career in 1984, initially leveraging his nearly two decades of diversified financial services industry experience to provide services to a wide array of financial services clients. His search work has spanned the real estate, banking, insurance and healthcare industries, and his list of successful placements boasts an impressive variety of senior level leadership positions within client organizations… Read More

Isabel WitteIsabel has had her professional focus on developing talent equity for over 20 years. As a founding partner of Bernotat & Cie. main focus of her work today is coaching C-level executives. Beyond this she works with international organizations such as The World Economic Forum, Linklaters and The Boston Consulting Group implementing both coaching and career counselling programs…Read More

Laurie WoodhouseLaurie provides change management and transformation services to both private and public organizations. She has worked on an international basis to re-engineer business processes, assist in cultural change and implement solutions that increase efficiency and effectiveness. Among her many notable accomplishments, she has built off-shore service centers, led large scale systems redesign initiatives and realigned organizations after a merger or acquisition…Read More